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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
after the painting by his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (see photo)
Etching, c. 1780
Signature: unsigned
Watermark: Letter A (similar to Bromberg 4...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Fresco/Naval Battle - Original Etching by V. Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco / Naval Battle from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Vincenzo Aloja in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plat...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius.. - Etching by Frederick de Wit - 1680ca
Located in Roma, IT
This double-page etching with contemporary coloring, entitled Novissima et Accuratissima totius Italiae, Corsicae et Sardiniae, was realized by the cartographer Frederick de Wit for ...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ancient Roman Frescoes - Original Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Frescoes from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rest on the flight into Egypt - Etching by Simome Cantarini - 1640 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Rest on the flight into Egypt is an etching by Simone Cantarini executed around 1640. Cantarini also made a painting with the same subject now at the Louvre Museum.
The dimension...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jupiter sends Iris to Hector. 18th century Classical Greek myth engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
"The two Armies being engaged by break of day, Jupiter sends Iris to bid Hector retire from the Fight, and not return till Agamemnon's wounds had obliged him, to withdraw from the Fi...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Limon Lavrae: A 17th C. Hand-colored Engraving of Lemon Anatomy by G. Ferrari
By Giovanni Battista Ferrari
Located in Alamo, CA
This 17th century hand-colored engraving of a lemon entitled "Limon Lavrae", plate 219 from Giovanni Baptista Ferrari's publication "Hesperides, sive, De Malorum Aureorum Cultura Etu...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Grotesque Figures - Etching by Pierre Firens- 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Grotesque Figures is an original etching realized by Pierre Firens in the early 17th century
It represents two grotesque figures in 17th century clothing.
Pierre Firens (1580-1636/...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$492 Sale Price
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Bildnis mit florentiner Hut. - Original Etching by Hans Thoma - 1900
By Hans Thoma 1
Located in Roma, IT
Bildnis mit florentiner Hut. is a beautiful black and white etching on cream-colored and laid paper, realized in 1898 by Hans Thoma.
Monogram and Date on p...
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Symbolist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$492 Sale Price
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Muse Terpsichore: Framed Hand-colored 19th C. Engraving after 17th C. Painting
Located in Alamo, CA
"Dessine par Gallier" is a hand-colored engraving and etching by Pierre Laurent (1739-1809) and Pierre Audouin (1768-1822) after a painting by Eustache Le Sueur...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Ancient Still Life 11 - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some folding and foxi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Biblia Sacra Man and Woman in the Garden of Pleasure original lithograph Salvado
Located in Paonia, CO
Man and Woman in the Garden of Pleasure is an original lithograph from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Riz...
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Surrealist 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le Chat d'Espagne - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chat d'Espagne is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabine...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Mejor es Holgar from Los Caprichos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Mejor es holgar from Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Etching and a...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Accurata totius Archipelagi et Graeciae...- Etching by Frederick de Wit - 1680ca
Located in Roma, IT
This double-page etching with contemporary coloring, entitled Accurata totius Archipelagi et Graeciae Universae Tabula, was realized by the cartographer Frederick de Wit for the famo...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750.
Etching on paper.
The work be...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$268 Sale Price
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Two Soldiers - Etching by G.B. Tiepolo - 1795
Located in Roma, IT
Two soldiers is an etching realized by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1785.
Sheet 23 x 30 cm.
Good impressions on paper, with wide margins.
Reference: D...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$2,505 Sale Price
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Framed eighteenth century botanical engraving in a decalcomania frame.
Located in Richmond, GB
From a wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in a hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame. So...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Le Serval - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Serval is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Le Fer a Cheval - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Fer a Cheval is an etching realized in 1771 by Juste Chevillet (1729–1802)
Signed in plate.
The piece belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, géné...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
William Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty": A Set of Two Framed 18th C. Engravings
Located in Alamo, CA
The two plates in this set were created utilizing both engraving and etching techniques by William Hogarth in 1753, originally as illustrations of his book on aesthetics, entitled "Analysis of Beauty". Due to their popularity, these plates were later published separately. The publication line in the lower right reads: "Designed, Engraved, and Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th 1753, according to Act of Parliament." Hogarth's original copper plates were refurbished where needed by James Heath and engravings were republished in London in 1822 by Braddock, Cradock & Joy. This was the last time Hogarth's copper plates were used for printing. Most were melted during World War I for the construction of bombs.
These large folio sized "Analysis of Beauty" engravings are presented in antiqued gold-colored frames with double mats; the outer silk mats are light brown-colored and the inner mats are dark brown. Each frame measures 27.38" x 31.25" x 1.13". There is one tiny spot in the right margin of plate 1 and another in the lower margin; the latter could be from the printing process. The prints are otherwise in excellent condition.
The "Analysis of Beauty" series is in the collection of many major museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tate Museum, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The first engraving (Plate 1) depicts a courtyard of statues which is filled with some of the most famous works of classical sculpture. The most important sculptures are surrounded by less impressive works. The Medicean Venus (#13) is in the center with a statue of Julius Caesar (#19) to the right, elevated on a pulley with a short, overdressed Brutus stands over the falling Caesar. The Apollo Belvedere (#12) is next. A judge stands to the right with his foot on a cherub (#16). Another crying cherub holds a gallows and wipes his tears with the judge's robe.
A sphinx (#21) and the drunken Silenus (#107) are below the Venus. Michaelangelo's torso (#54) and a statue of Antonius (#6) are seen in the foreground. The Farnese Hercules (#3) and a bust of another Hercules (#4) under two statuettes of Isis are also included in the scene.
The key to these objects is included in the form of a serpentine line winding around a cone (#26), Hogarth's "Line of Beauty". For Hogarth the winding line is an essential element of beauty in art. Hogarth's theory of beauty is communicated in this plate.
Plate 2 is thought to represent the Wanstead Assembly, with the Earl of Tynley and his household. It is an adaptation of a scene in the Happy Marriage series, which complements Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Le Chats Des Chartreux - Etching by Louis-Simon Lempereur - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chats Des Chartreux is an etching realized by Louis-Simon Lempereur in 1771.
It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tu que no puedes - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Tu que no puedes from "Los Caprichos" is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
The work is an etching and aquat...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife
Located in Middletown, NY
Sadeler, Aegidius II, after Bartholomeus Spranger
Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller
Engraving on hand made laid paper wit...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
Landscape - Etching by Étienne Fessard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Étienne Fessard is a Etching print realized by Étienne Fessard in 1771.
Good conditions.
The artwork id depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Amour de la Patrie - Etching by F.M. Beaurain and J.-B. Malle
Located in Roma, IT
Allegoric engraving of the French Revolution, designed by François Marie Beaurain and Jean-Baptiste Mallet between 1793 and 1794.
Both Beaurain ...
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18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Naked Woman on a Mound by Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 Dutch
Naked Woman on a Mound
Etching on paper
Etched by Rembrandt
New Hollstein 88, second state of II; Bartsch, Hollstein 198; Hind 43
One of the gr...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Academie de l’Espee Tabula 2 prints Girarld Thibault Tab. XXXIII & Tab.IIII
Located in Paonia, CO
Two hand colored engravings from the Academie de l’Espee ( full title can be translated as Academy of the Sword: wherein is demonstrated by mathematical rules on the foundation of a mysterious circle the theory and practice of the true and heretofore unknown secrets of handling arms on foot and horseback ) by Girard Thibault...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Suite de Vases - Original Etching By Jacques François Saly - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Suite de Vases is an original artwork realized by the French artist Jacques François Saly (1717-1776)
Etching print. drawing on the back, 1750 c. Passepartout cm 21x22,5
Good cond...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Title: Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Year: 1634
Medium: Etching
Paper: Verge paper
Image (plate mark) size: 4.75 x 4.25 inches
Fr...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Piramide - Porta S.Paolo - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Piramide - Porta S.Paolo is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vasi (Corl...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Goddess - Etching by Nicola Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Goddess from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$403 Sale Price
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Canal with a large Boat and Bridge – after Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Heliogravure on cream laid paper, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (80 x118 mm), thread margins. In good condition with a soft vertical crease and minor uniform toning. Printed early 19th centur...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Photogravure
"New Mackrel": An Engraving From the 18th Century Series 'The Cries of London'
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a beautifully framed engraving, printed in colors with additional hand coloring, from the famous "Cries of London" series, depicting the lives and professions of the common p...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Passengers - Original Etching by A. M. de Ghuy - 1775
Located in Roma, IT
The Passenger is an original artwork realized by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy in 1775.
Original etching on paper. Titled on the lower margin at the center. The artwork is glued on ca...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Organ Grinder
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with a large heraldic watermark which is partially trimmed, 4 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches (105 x 84 mm), margins trimmed but preserving the signature in the lower...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Goddess of Love - Original Etching by Martino Rota - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Goddess of Love is an original hand-colored etching on creamy-colored paper realized in the 17 century by Martino Rota.
Signed on the plate on the low...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sujets d’histoire et de Mythologie - Original Etching by P.-L. Parizeau - 1771
By Philippe-Louis Parizeau
Located in Roma, IT
Sujets d’histoire et de Mythologie is an etching made by the French draftsman and engraver Philippe-Louis Parizeau (Paris, 1740 – 1801), also known for realizing the first prints au ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Quebec and the Surveillante [an animated naval battle scene]
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with extensive handcoloring, on laid paper with a Fleur de Lys watermark, with margins. Plate 11 13/16 x 15 3/4 (300 x 400 mm); Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 3/8 inches (317 x 415 mm)...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Laid Paper
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A Cart Race
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Cart Race
Hand colored etching & aquatint, 1788
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Published by William Hollande, London
Inscribed in the plate with title, artist's name and publication line 'Rowlandson. 1788./ London. Pubd 1789 by Wm Holland No 50. Oxford Street.'
Reference: M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
British Museum Satires 7607
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 260, Grego II.392
Provenance: Chris Beetles Ltd., London (label), 2003
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C.
(label)
Fursten zu Oettingen-Wallerstein, Lugt 2715a,
verso (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Printed on 18th century laid paper
Archival framing by Chris Beetles Ltd., London
Note: The British Museum has two impressions, one trimmed the other full sheet as this example. Accession Number: 1868,0711.35
The Metropolitan Museum has an impression: Accession number 59.533.314
Fitzwilliam Museum: Accession number: 34.14-286
Cleveland Museum of Art accession number: 1958.10
Image description per BM: Three ramshackle two-wheeled carts drawn by wretched horses race (right to left) against a background formed by the church...
Note: The British Museum has two impressions, one trimmed the other full sheet as this example. Accession Number: 1868,0711.35
The Metropolitan Museum has an impression: Accession number 59.533.314
Fitzwilliam Museum: Accession number: 34.14-286
Cleveland Museum of Art accession number: 1958.10
Image description per BM: Three ramshackle two-wheeled carts drawn by wretched horses race (right to left) against a background formed by the clouds of dust which they have raised, with a row of gabled houses (right) inscribed 'St Giles', terminating in a church spire (left), and probably representing Broad St. Giles. The occupants of the carts are Irish costermongers typical of St. Giles. The foremost horse gallops, urged on by the shouts of a standing man brandishing a club. The other occupants, two women and a man, cheer derisively the next cart, whose horse has fallen, one woman falling from it head-first, another lies on the ground. The driver lashes the horse furiously. The third cart, of heavier construction, is starting. The horses are partly obscured by the clouds of dust, but denizens watch from casement windows and a door. Two ragged urchins (right) cheer the race; a dog barks.
"It was said that the amount of copper Thomas Rowlandson etched would sheathe the British Navy. An inveterate gambler, for much of his life Rowlandson had to produce a flood of his comic prints to stay ahead of financial losses.A wealthy uncle and aunt raised Rowlandson after his textile-merchant father went bankrupt. His career developed quickly. He entered London's Royal Academy Schools in 1772, visited Paris in 1774, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775, and won a silver medal in 1777. He left school in 1778 to set up in business. Rowlandson's depictions of life in Georgian England exposed human foibles and vanity with sympathy and rollicking humor. During the 1780s he consolidated the delicate style he used for his coarse subjects. He worked mainly in ink and watercolor, his rhythmic compositions, flowing line, and relaxed elegance inspired by French Rococo art...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Le Chat d'Angora - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Chat d'Angora is an etching realized in 1771 by ` (1723-1807).
It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi".
Arti...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Venus Lamenting over the Death of Adonis
Located in Middletown, NY
c. 1654. Etching with engraving on thin laid paper with an early and large unidentified watermark with a sundial and a many-pointed star, and an unidentified collector's stamp in the...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
The Beheading of the King of England; Enthauptung des Königs in England
Located in Middletown, NY
The execution of Charles I (1600-1649) at Whitehall, January 30th 1649, in front of the Banqueting House. The executioner holding the head of Charles up to the crowd below.
Engravin...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
The Actors Nakajima Wadaemon as Bōdara Chōzaemon and Nakamura Konozō as Gon of t
Located in Middletown, NY
Two minor villains from "Medley of Tales of Revenge" square off, as performed at the Kiri theatre, Tokyo, in May of 1794.
Toyko: Tsutaya Juzaburo, 1794.
Woodblock (nishiki-e) with ...
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Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828)
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Wedding among the Indians of Panama - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Wedding among the Indians of Panama; Relatives and friends tilling the couple's soil is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver G...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chamomile & Safflower: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Chamemelum Romanum flore simplici (Chamomile), Cincus Sativus (False saffron, Safflower), Chamaemelum Romanum Flore (Roman Chamomile)", depicting flowering Chamomile, Safflower and Roman Chamomile plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There are a few small spots and some irregularity of the lower edge. There is some bleed-through of text from the verso. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 22.25" high and 17.38" wide.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Goddess - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Goddess from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$429 Sale Price
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Plucking a Branch from a Neighbor's Plum Tree
Located in Middletown, NY
A mischievous tableau with sexual overtones.
Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1768.
Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (273 x 200 mm), full margins. I...
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Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
Le Coq - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Coq is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
Titled and Signed on the plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$178 Sale Price
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Festival Procession Of A Daimyo - Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Procession Of A Daimyo - Original Woodblock Print
Original woodblock print depicting the procession of a Daimyo. Ten Japanese soldiers are seen as they aid in transporting the Daimy...
Category
Edo 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel, Rice Paper
The Last Supper, from The Passion of Christ
By Hendrick Goltzius
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 3/8 inches (203 x 137 mm), trimmed at the platemark. A fine impression with a Coat of Arms watermark. Second state, after the addition of the Frederick de Witt...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
Church of St. Costanza, Rome: An 18th Century Piranesi Architectural Etching
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 18th century Giovanni Battista Piranesi etching entitled: "Veduta interna del Sepocro di Santa Costanza, fabbricat...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Etching
Framed Rubbing of 1550 Brass Monument in Grote Kerk Church, Breda, Netherlands
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an engraving of a tomb monument rubbing that has been highlighted with gold color on a dark grey to black background. The rubbing is of a brass plaque on a stone slab. It has...
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Northern Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Buttercup Flowers: A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup) flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thick laid chain-linked paper. There is latin text on the verso. There are central horizontal creases and two small holes on the right and another in the left lower corner. It is otherwise in excellent condition.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
Woodcuts
Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
BATHOS / Tail PIece
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
British Caricature...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
